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Friday, December 6, 1996 · Capital Centre

Penguins 5 at Capitals 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 75OVR Dale Hunter Capitals First Star 2G · 4 SOG L 78OVR Steve Konowalchuk Capitals Second Star 2A · 2 SOG R 99OVR Jaromir Jagr Penguins Third Star 2G · 1A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 10:56 Dale Hunter (5) Unassisted PIT 0 – 1 WSH
  2. 19:31 Andrei Nikolishin (5) Kelly Miller (4), Steve Konowalchuk (8) PIT 0 – 2 WSH

2nd Period

  1. 5:01 Jaromir Jagr (25) PPG J.J. Daigneault (9) PIT 1 – 2 WSH
  2. 10:18 Ron Francis (9) Kevin Hatcher (14), Jaromir Jagr (10) PIT 2 – 2 WSH

3rd Period

  1. 3:13 Mario Lemieux (11) Andreas Johansson (4), Stu Barnes (11) PIT 3 – 2 WSH
  2. 5:17 Petr Nedved (13) Alek Stojanov (3) PIT 4 – 2 WSH
  3. 5:50 Dale Hunter (6) Steve Konowalchuk (9), Kelly Miller (5) PIT 4 – 3 WSH
  4. 15:19 Jaromir Jagr (26) Petr Nedved (12), Alek Stojanov (4) PIT 5 – 3 WSH

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Jaromir Jagr R 2 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.68
Alek Stojanov R 0 2 0 0 0 +2 0:00 1.55
Petr Nedved C 1 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.53
Mario Lemieux C 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.13
Kevin Hatcher D 0 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.93
Ron Francis C 1 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.83
J.J. Daigneault D 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Stu Barnes C 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.55
Andreas Johansson L 0 1 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.55
Dave Roche L 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Fredrik Olausson D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.23
Glen Murray R 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Darius Kasparaitis D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Tyler Wright C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Francois Leroux D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Craig Muni D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Alex Hicks L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Jason Woolley D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ken Wregget — 12 10 2 .833 20:00 -0.50
Patrick Lalime W 17 16 1 .941 40:00 0.85

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Dale Hunter C 2 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.95
Steve Konowalchuk L 0 2 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.70
Kelly Miller L 0 2 0 0 0 +1 0:00 1.40
Andrei Nikolishin C 1 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 0.53
Sergei Gonchar D 0 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 0.45
Anson Carter R 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Sylvain Cote D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Jason Allison C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Ken Klee D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Kevin Kaminski C 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.07
Mike Eagles L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Mark Tinordi D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Phil Housley D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Craig Berube L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Andrew Brunette L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Todd Krygier L 0 0 3 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.22
Joe Reekie D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Chris Simon L 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.52
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Olie Kolzig L 28 23 5 .821 58:55 -1.45